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Pioneering Places of British Aviation

Author : Bruce Hales-Dutton
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 152675018X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Pioneering Places of British Aviation written by Bruce Hales-Dutton and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country many places became centres of innovation and experimentation, as increasing numbers of daring men took to the skies. It was in 1799, at Brompton Hall, that Sir George Cayley Bart put forward ideas which formed the basis of powered flight. Cayley is widely regarded as the father of aviation and his ancestral home the ‘cradle’ of British aviation. There were balloon flights at Hendon from 1862, although attempts at powered flights from the area later used as the famous airfield, do not seem to have been particularly successful. Despite this, Louis Bleriot established a flying school there in 1910. It was gliders that Percy Pilcher flew from the grounds of Stamford Hall, Leicestershire during the 1890s. He was killed in a crash there in 1899, but Pilcher had plans for a powered aircraft which experts believe may well have enabled him to beat the Wright Brothers in becoming the first to make a fixed-wing powered flight. At Brooklands attempts were made to build and fly a powered aircraft in 1906 even before the banked racetrack was completed but these were unsuccessful. But on 8 June 1908, A.V. Roe made what is considered to be the first powered flight in Britain from there – in reality a short hop – in a machine of his own design and construction, enabling Brooklands to claim to be the birthplace of British aviation. These are just a few of the many places investigated by Bruce Hales-Dutton in this intriguing look at the early days of British aviation, which includes the first ever aircraft factory in Britain in the railway arches at Battersea; Larkhill on Salisbury Plain which became the British Army’s first airfield, and Barking Creek where Frederick Handley Page established his first factory.

Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation

Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783034947
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation written by Richard Edwards and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation tells the dramatic story of a world leading aviation industry, from the sweat and grease of the workshop, to the board rooms and government nationalisations that ultimately fashioned its destiny.The heroes are Britains most innovative aviation pioneers and their aircraft, the men and women who persevered to be the first into the air, to fly the fastest, the highest and the furthest. This broad and highly accessible books ranges from the first man to fly across the English Channel from England to France to the development of the Spitfire and from the disastrous R101 airship to the development of the jet engine and ultimately the worlds first supersonic airliner.Each chapter looks at a different aviation pioneer and the flying machines that they designed, their engineering landmarks, their triumphs in the air and on occasion their disasters too. The book explores the great air races that were won and lost, the government contracts and political short-sightedness that cut short the development of leading aircraft designs and many of the dramatic air raids and sea battles from the First World War to the Falklands and the Middle East.Many of the industrys most prominent names are profiled, including Ernest Willows, the Short brothers, Geoffrey de Havilland, Vincent Richmond, George White, Thomas Sopwith, Harry Hawker, RJ Mitchell, Herbert Smith, Charles Rolls, Henry Royce, Reginald Pierson, Alliott Verdon-Roe, Frederick Handley Page, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Blackburn and Frank Whittle.Behind the personal stories are the histories of the aircraft companies that these pioneers created, from those that went bankrupt to those that lasted the test of time and have become indivisible from British aviation folklore, such names as Sopwith, Handley Page, Avro, Supermarine, Blackburn, Bristol, Fairey and Rolls-Royce. The book covers the mergers and acquisitions that led to the creation of two major aircraft manufacturers, Hawker Siddeley Group and the British Aircraft Corporation, and how barely two decades later, before the century was out, they were nationalised to form British Aerospace.

Kites, Birds & Stuff - Over 150 Years of British Aviation - Makers & Manufacturers - Volume 1 - A to C

Author : P. D. Stemp
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445794217
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Kites, Birds & Stuff - Over 150 Years of British Aviation - Makers & Manufacturers - Volume 1 - A to C written by P. D. Stemp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of pioneers and companies of Great Britain. From the early years to the modern day. A comprehensive study of old and new aircraft. ( Already being used in various aviation museum archives }.

A Flying Life: An Enthusiast's Photographic Record of British Aviation in the 1930s

Author : Richard Riding
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 : 1781554145
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book A Flying Life: An Enthusiast's Photographic Record of British Aviation in the 1930s written by Richard Riding and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Flying Life: An Enthusiast's Photographic Record of British Aviation in the 1930s consists of photographs that were taken by E. J. Riding, the author's father, who spent his working life in the aviation industry. He was apprenticed to A. V. Roe & Company and employed as an aircraft engineer up to the war. During the war, Riding became an AID inspector and was seconded to Fairey Aviation, London Aircraft Production and the de Havilland Aircraft Company, latterly signing out Halifax bombers and Mosquitoes as airworthy and ready for test flying. Sadly, Riding was killed in a flying accident in 1950. During his short life, he gained a lasting reputation as an engineer, professional photographer, draughtsman and aero modeller. Riding began taking photographs of aircraft in 1931, aged fifteen. Fortunately, he kept copious notes recording the locations and dates of when and where aircraft were photographed. More importantly, he noted aircraft colour schemes, details rarely recorded by the press at the time. The aircraft types photographed by Riding ranged from the Tiger Moth, RAF fighters, ultra-lights to airliners, the whole giving a good cross-section of flying in Britain up to the outbreak of the Second World War. The book's photographs are of excellent quality and do not all consist of sterile bog-standard side views. Many depict aircraft being stripped for maintenance and servicing, others show aircraft dumped or after having crashed. Although approached in a generally light-hearted manner, the book features in-depth and informative captions.

British Aviation Advertisements (1909-1970) Number 4. The Bristol Blenheim

Author : Dave Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 132649239X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book British Aviation Advertisements (1909-1970) Number 4. The Bristol Blenheim written by Dave Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number 4 in the Aviation Ancestry catalogue of British Aviation Advertisements (1909-1980) this volume covers the listings for The Bristol Type 142 & Blenheim Aircraft. Aimed primarily at researchers and enthusiasts the adverts are reproduced at one per page without narrative. Each item includes the source title and original date of publication.

Kites, Birds & Stuff - Over 150 Years of British Aviation - Makers & Manufacturers - Volume 2 - D to O

Author : P. D. Stemp
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445794225
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Kites, Birds & Stuff - Over 150 Years of British Aviation - Makers & Manufacturers - Volume 2 - D to O written by P. D. Stemp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of pioneers and companies of Great Britain. From the early years of aviation to the modern day. Individual builders to company manufacturers. A comprehensive study of old and new aircraft. Including: - English Electric - Felixstowe - Folland - Grahame White - Hendy - Hunting Percival - Martin-Baker - Martinsyde - Nieuport - to name but a few. A two hundred and fifty nine page book. Individual details of some 510 aircraft. Around 423 pictures plus 130 plan diagrams.

KITES, BIRDS & STUFF - Over 150 Years of BRITISH Aviation - Makers & Manufacturers - Volume 3 - P to Z

Author : P.D. Stemp
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445794233
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book KITES, BIRDS & STUFF - Over 150 Years of BRITISH Aviation - Makers & Manufacturers - Volume 3 - P to Z written by P.D. Stemp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of aviation pioneers and companies of Great Britain. From the early years to the modern day. A comprehensive study of old and new. Including: - Parnall - Pemberton-Billing - Percival - Sage - Saunders-Roe - Slingsby - Spartan - Taylorcraft - Tipsy - White & Thompson - Wight - to name but a few. A two hundred and seventy six page book. Individual details of some 490 aircraft. Around 436 pictures plus 134 plan diagrams.

British Aircraft Manufacturers Since 1909

Author : Peter G. Dancey
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Aircraft Manufacturers Since 1909 written by Peter G. Dancey and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909 traces one hundred years of the British aviation industry, its history, origins, mergers and takeovers. It details the evolution of the British aviation industry and is an epitaph to household famous names such as Armstrong-Whitworth, de Havilland, Chadwick, Claude-Graham White, Sopwith, A. V. Roe, Mitchell, Hawker, Handley Page, Petter and Fairey to name but a few. Of more recent times, the likes of Sidney Camm, Hooker and Hooper, all of whom, made VTOL more than just a dream, are also covered in astonishing and exhausting detail. Of the major firms, most at some time or other have been absorbed, merged or reorganised to form a single conglomerate, BAe Systems and Rolls-Royce are chronicled from the outset to the mighty companies they are today. Only PBN-Britten Norman - who on several occasions escaped extinction due to financial difficulties - and Westland, now part of AgustaWestland, and Short Bros of Northern Ireland remain independent, although even the latter, are part of Canadian, Bombardier Co. British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909 tells the complete and enthralling story of how Britain ruled the world in terms of manufacturing and aircraft design from nimble but fragile biplanes and majestic airliners that united the world to the advanced bombers and fighters of today.

British Aviation Squadron Markings of World War I

Author : Les Rogers
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764312847
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book British Aviation Squadron Markings of World War I written by Les Rogers and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years in the making, this book covers the wide variety of markings used by British aviation units in World War I. Organized numerically by squadron number the book includes both textual and photographic examples for nearly all RFC, RAF, and RNAS squadrons. Many of the photographs are published here for the first time, and the color profiles offer a representative selection of units, aircraft, and color schemes. A classic book.

British Naval Aviation in World War II

Author : Gilbert S. Guinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857711121
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis British Naval Aviation in World War II by : Gilbert S. Guinn

Download or read book British Naval Aviation in World War II written by Gilbert S. Guinn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outome of the Battle of the Atlantic from 1939 to 1945 depended Britain's survival in the midst of a global war. The need to control the sealanes to Britain was mirrored by a need to control the skies above. Carrier based aircraft and seaplanes would play an important role in defeating the German submarine menace and in combating her surface fleet. However, at the start of World War II Britain possessed neither the training or industrial establishment necessary to develop this arm of warfare. From 1940 onwards the United States provided answers to the problem firstly in the form of American built aircraft, then American built aircraft carriers and finally American trained pilots. Even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm pilots were being trained in the United States under a scheme set up by the United States Navy as part of the Lend Lease agreement. In the safer skies over the United States American Navy pilots would train British aviation cadets how to fly and to fight. This process is examined from a variety of different perspectives including the military, diplomatic, educational and cultural. For many young British aviation cadets the journey across the Atlantic and across America was as surprising as it was lengthy. Many would find themselves caught up with issues such as segregation in the American South of which they had little understanding. The book is based on interviews and correspondence with hundreds of former cadets who trained in the United States in the 1940s together with material from the British and American archives.

British Aircraft Corporation

Author : Stephen Skinner
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
ISBN 13 : 9781847973184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book British Aircraft Corporation written by Stephen Skinner and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Aircraft Corporation was formed from The Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric, Vickers-Armstrong and Hunting in 1960. In its short, seventeen-year, life, the British Aircraft Corporation built some of the most important aircraft and missiles of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond: its best-known products included the Jaguar and Tornado warplanes, Rapier missile and One-Eleven airliner. It was also responsible for the stillborn TSR2 strike aircraft, the 1965 cancellation of which remain controversial to this day. Most famously, the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner came from the BAC stable. BAC was subsumed into British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) in 1977, but many of its products remain in service to this day. This book tells their complete story.

A View from the Wings

Author : Colin Cruddas
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752490753
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book A View from the Wings written by Colin Cruddas and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been produced which detail the lives and thoughts of famous individuals. A View from the Wings is unique, recalling a wartime boyhood in which aircraft flying constantly overhead played a large part. This experience led to a lifetime career in the aviation industry both in the UK and overseas such as the US and South Africa. Mixed with events of a more personal nature often coated with whimsical humour, the author has evocatively captured the rise and demise of Britain's aircraft industry in the post-war period. In setting out to be non-technical, A View from the Wings will appeal to those whose memories embrace the sound barrier-breaking years and the leap of faith and technology that saw Concorde defeat the Americans in the race to produce a practical supersonic airliner. All too often political procurement and technical failures have made for dramatic headlines and these too are subjected to much critical comments. Think of the critically acclaimed Empire of the Clouds (Faber and Faber, 2010), but instead of a boyhood observer, the author was an active part of the British aviation industry in its former prime and eventual implosion.

Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry

Author : J Paul Hodgson
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526774674
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry written by J Paul Hodgson and published by Air World. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The rich and diverse history of the British aircraft industry is captured in superb detail by the author in this weighty tome.” —Aviation News Great Britain’s aircraft industry started in 1908, with the first formally registered organization in the world to offer to design and build an aeroplane “for commercial gain.” This book tells the complete story of the 110 years since the start, all the companies formed and the aircraft they produced, highlighting the advances in aeronautical ambition and technology. It is the story of the creation, survival and decline of all one hundred and twenty-three of the aircraft design and construction companies formed between 1908 and 2018. The exhilaration of success and the magic of aviation technology are vividly illustrated by the technical and political birth stories of iconic projects, such as the Cirrus/Gypsy Moths, the Tiger Moth, the flying boats of Imperial Airways, Spitfire, Lancaster, Viscount, Vulcan, Harrier, Buccaneer and many more. The rotary wing industry is not forgotten. The birth of the jet turbine engine and the quest for supersonic speed is included. The stories of the disappointments of failure and disaster, such as the Brabazon, Comet, Princess, Rotodyne and TSR-2, and the growth of international collaboration in Concorde, Tornado, Airbus, Eurofighter Typhoon and other projects are included, in the context of the international scene and domestic politics. The conclusion highlights the prominent reminiscences and speculates on the future of the aircraft industry in Britain. “An outstanding reference book and a thoroughly enjoyable canter through the decades, from the days of wood and fabric to the modern composite structure of the wings of the A400 Atlas.” —RAF Historical Society

The Royal Air Force in American Skies

Author : Tom Killebrew
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574416154
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Air Force in American Skies written by Tom Killebrew and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By early 1941, the war raged in Europe and Great Britain stood alone against the aerial might of Nazi Germany. Although much of the Royal Air Force's pilot training program had been relocated to Canada and other Dominion countries, the need for pilots remained acute. The British looked to the United States for possible assistance. Passage of the Lend-Lease Act in March 1941 allowed for the training of British pilots in the United States and the formation of British Flying Training Schools. These unique schools were owned by American operators, staffed with American civilian instructors, supervised by British Royal Air Force officers, utilized aircraft supplied by the U.S. Army Air Corps, and used the RAF training syllabus. Within these pages, Tom Killebrew provides the first comprehensive history of all seven British Flying Training Schools located in Terrell, Texas; Lancaster, California; Miami, Oklahoma; Mesa, Arizona; Clewiston, Florida; Ponca City, Oklahoma; and Sweetwater, Texas. The first British students arrived in a still-neutral United States in June 1941. Many had never been in an airplane (or even driven an automobile), but they mastered the elements of flight, attended ground school classes, were introduced to the mysteries of the Link trainer and instrument flight, and then ventured out on cross country exercises. Students began night flying with the natural apprehension associated with taking off into a black sky, aided by only a few instruments, a flickering flare path, and limited ground references. Some students failed the periodic check flights and had to be eliminated from training, while others were killed during mishaps and are buried in local cemeteries. Those who finished the course became Royal Air Force pilots. But the story of the British Flying Training Schools is more than the story of young men learning to fly. These young British students would also forge a strong and long-lasting bond of friendship with the Americans they came to know. This bond would last not only during training, but would continue throughout the war, and still exist long after the end of the war.

Empire of the Clouds

Author : James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271731
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Clouds written by James Hamilton-Paterson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - its loss of self confidence and power. It is the story of great and charismatic machines and the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke, John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took inconceivable risks, so that we could fly without a second thought.

The Aeroplane Directory of British Aviation

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Aeroplane Directory of British Aviation written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Carrier Aviation

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book British Carrier Aviation written by Norman Friedman and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete record of the history of British carrier and their aircraft. An abundance of photos and drawings make this work an interesting and valuable reference tool. The text by Friedman, a well known naval expert, is exciting reading. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR